A US F-22 fighter shot down an unidentified cylindrical object in the skies over Canada on Saturday, the second in two days as North America is on high alert after the week-long balloon saga Chinese spies that caught the world’s attention. .
At the same time, the US military deployed fighter jets to Montana to investigate a radar anomaly that caused a brief closure of federal airspace.
“These aircraft did not identify any objects that correlated with what radar showed,” the North American Airspace Defense Command (NORAD) said in a statement.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the fall of the object in the northern Yukon Territory on Saturday, saying Canadian forces would recover and analyze the wreckage.
Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand declined to speculate on the origin of the object, which she said was cylindrical in shape.
She stopped short of calling it a balloon, but said it was smaller than the Chinese balloon shot down off South Carolina a week ago, although similar in appearance.
US President Joe Biden authorized the US military to work with Canada to shoot down the high-altitude craft following a call between Biden and Trudeau, the Pentagon said.
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